Town Hall, Commonwealth & Main, Erlanger, c. 1910
Erlanger, c. WWI
Dixie Highway, Erlanger
The Q & C Depot, Erlanger
(The Queen and Crescent, later the Southern, later
the Norfolk Southern)
This is the man for whom Erlanger is named, Baron E.
d'Erlanger.
You can read why in the Henry Childress piece below.
The first word in Erlanger history is Henry Childress' History of Erlanger, here.
The Erlanger Depot, 1974
Current home of the Erlanger Depot Museum, open April 1
through November 1, Saturdays only, from noon to 4 pm.
Erlanger Depot, September, 1911
(a Kentuckiana Virtual Library image)
Commonwealth Avenue
Grandstand at Erlanger Fairgrounds
left, Trotters Race at the Erlanger Fair
Grounds
right, Grandstand at the Erlanger Fairgrounds
The grandstand you see here seated 4,000 people and
was located where the Lloyd High School Campus
is today. The first Erlanger Derby was run here in 1906.
A Kentucky Post preview of events at the 1910 Erlanger
Fair, including "the inevitable Oriental dancers," is
here.
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High School, Erlanger
A brief history of the Erlanger schools
ran in the
Dixie News. You can read it
here. (pdf)
Lloyd Memorial High School, 1942
Named for John Uri Lloyd, more about whom is
here.
Aerial View of Erlanger
Kenton Co Public Library
Looking East in 1911
This image is provided through the
courtesy of the Lloyd Library of Cincinnati
Erlanger Scenes after a Tornado, July 7, 1915
Erlanger Fire Department
List of the firemen is here.
Erlanger Base Ball Team
Key to who's in the pic, here.
Edgewood / Erlanger Aerial
That's Dixie Heights in the top center
right, Child
Life in Erlanger, Kentucky
left, Seining for Minnows in Dry Creek on the
Sunset Poultry Farm
near Erlanger, Kentucky
The Erlanger Historical Society is here.
The City of Erlanger was first incorporated on January 25, 1897.
Their publication, Lookin' Back, a
detailed look, street by
street, and house by house, of old Erlanger, is
here.
(pdf)
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On September 19, 1888, at a barbecue in Erlanger, one of Kentucky’s Senators, Joseph C. S. Blackburn debated the Speaker of the U. S. House of Representatives, then Covington’s John J. Carlisle about tariff reform. 6,000 people showed up. |
Shootout in an Erlanger saloon in 1887, story here.
Two murder stories from 1890's Erlanger, here.
The City of Erlanger is here.
